Geordie actor Jimmy Nail puts on a brave face and carries on filming, following the death of his Auf Wiedersehen, Pet co-star Pat Roach.

The 50-year-old is seen here shooting a Christmas special of the popular TV show just days after the death of Roach, who played Bomber since the series first started in the early 80s.

Roach died last month after a long battle against cancer and had been too ill to travel to Bangkok to film the festive one-off Pet special.

The Christmas two-parter will see the gang of builders working in London and Thailand, and the cast decided to continue filming as a tribute to their friend.

But they found it hard to hide their feelings as they shot these scenes in London, as these pictures show.

Grim-faced, Nail went through his paces but the strain showed on all concerned.

Two weeks ago, Tim Healy and Kevin Whately jetted back from filming in Thailand to say goodbye to the ex-wrestler who died from throat cancer.

Jimmy Nail and Timothy Spall were also at the gentle giant's funeral in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

BBC producers had intended he would still star in the two-part special and had planned to work the filming around him.

His death devastated Healy, Whately and Nail, who became household names when the first series was screened in the early 80s.

Born in Birmingham, Pat began his professional career as a wrestler and later starred in many hit films, including A Clockwork Orange, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Pet writers Dick Clement and Tyneside-born Ian La Frenais, issued a joint statement, saying: "We knew Pat had been ill for some time but it was an illness he fought with enormous courage and determination. He was the biggest man in the group and probably the quietest. Even if he never had the most lines, his was always a reassuring presence, the bass voice in the choir. He projected reliability and fundamental decency, qualities that he himself possessed.